Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C. S. Lewis

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

William Shakespeare

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

Cathy Rigby

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Bette Davis

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Antoine Fuqua

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Bill Vaughan

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Bill Vaughan

Goal achievement is hero's work.

David Blankenhorn

We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best.

Padgett Powell

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Arthur Griffiths

Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Imelda May

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.